About me

Hi. I’m Chris. Talk to me about ways out of the nightmare, about the exquisite joys of inhabiting our bodies and transcending them, or about the profound capacity for suffering that links us all to one another.

About my posts

This site is like a journal for me. Often I have thoughts I want to express to a listener or an audience, but those aren’t always readily available, so I post here instead. Mostly I do textual analysis, text being any voluntarily and intentionally created phenomenon that contains and imparts an interpretable and meaningful message, accessible to a community of receivers. (I’ve paraphrased from Treharne and Willan’s Text Technologies, which unfortunately stipulates that text must be human-created, a limitation which, while understandable for narrowing the scope of their book, does to some degree reinforce human supremacist ideas about the capacities of non-human beings. Did you know that whale speech has linguistic elements that are considered by some researchers to be analogous to the human concept of vowels?) Under that definition, books are, of course, text, but so is art, film, video games, and so forth. All of that is fair game here. My analysis is always informed by my political commitments, which should be fairly easy to pick up on as you read.

About this site

Creating and maintaining this website is part of an ongoing project of mine intended to develop my technical abilities. It’s also an attempt to practice integrating the application of those technical skills with my aforementioned political commitments. As such, this site is intended to be accessible to as many people as possible. It should load quickly even on slow Internet connections and respect the digital privacy of the individuals who visit the site. Folks using screen readers or keyboards without computer mice should find the site pleasant to navigate. Most design considerations, like choice of color and font, are made with accessibility in mind.

This site is maintained and updated using jbauer’s sbs, a static site generator, to which I’ve made some minor modifications.

Contact

I receive email at this domain.